The Coming Fury

(Reprinted from SOBRANS,
September 2006, page 1)

As
Venezuelas leftist president, Hugo Chavez, cuddled with the ailing
Fidel Castro on the occasion of the latters eightieth birthday, I found
myself thinking of a name from the past: Manuel Noriega. Remember him? He
was the pocky-faced dictator of Panama toppled by the first President Bush
in 1989, on the pretext that he was trafficking in drugs, with the usual Hitler
analogies justifying the latest U.S war in Central America. After he finally
surrendered, Noriega was somehow tried under U.S. law (though he
hadnt set foot in this country) and of course convicted. The last I
heard, he was in an American prison and had converted to Christianity.

This remains the most
recent of Americas many little interventions in the region. We tend
to forget them quickly, but those on the receiving end remember
them. This
is why rulers like Castro and Chavez are as popular as they
are in Latin America: whatever their faults, at least they defy the bullying
Yanqui.

About all I remember
about the Panama war is that it seemed quite unnecessary to me, while my
conservative friends were all for it. I never understood their enthusiasm,
except that the Cold War was coming to an end and they relished the chance
to exercise American power abroad against an enemy, any enemy, and
Noriega would serve. I thought it was shameful. Obviously Noriega was no
threat at all to the United States; you might say he was the Saddam Hussein
of the Eighties. And we wonder why there is so much anti-Americanism
around the world.

Lately Ive been
reading Pat Buchanans latest book, State of
Emergency, a warning that immigration by unassimilable aliens now
threatens not only America but Europe. Given our history of absorbing
newcomers peacefully, I was disposed to be skeptical. But after only a few
chapters I found myself, against my will, shaken and convinced. The new
influxes, chiefly Mexican here and Muslim in Europe, are totally different
from early waves of immigrants  and far more dangerous. At present
rates, it wont be long until there are no majority white Christian
countries on earth. And the new nonwhite majorities will be deeply hostile to
the natives.

In his brilliant, neglected
book, The Might of the West (1964), Lawrence Brown
observes that we remember the nineteenth century as a period of peace only
because the white nations seldom made war on each other. The rest of the
world experienced it differently. The white mans technology, chiefly
gunpowder, enabled him to invade and conquer red, brown, yellow, and black
men around the world, with enormous attendant slaughter and disruption. To
these peoples it must have seemed as if a strange race of pale aliens, armed
with malevolent magic, had arrived from another planet to destroy them.
They were all but helpless against the enemys guns, then a terrible
novelty and mystery to them.

We ruled the world, and
it seemed we would go on ruling it forever. But now  suddenly, in
historical terms  the tables are turned, and it is we who seem
helpless against the colored races explosive populations. They are
driving us out of their world and moving into ours in huge numbers. And they
are in no mood either to adopt our ways or to forgive us.

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